Abstract: Provided are an anode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a manufacturing method thereof, and a lithium secondary battery including the same, the anode active material for a lithium secondary battery including: a carbon-based particle; a composite layer positioned on the carbon-based particle and including a silicon particle dispersed in a carbon matrix; and a carbon coating layer positioned on the composite layer.

Abstract: An active material and a surface treatment method of the active material are provided. A surface of the active material may be treated with a coating layer including a first metal oxide containing lithium, and a second metal oxide.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode active material having a plurality of pores and a secondary battery including the same, and more particularly, a porous electrode active material including silicon-based oxide expressed by SiOx (0.5?x?1.2) and having a Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller (BET) specific surface area ranging from 2 m2/g to 100 m2/g, and a secondary battery including a cathode including a cathode active material, a separator, an anode including an anode active material, and an electrolyte, in which the anode active material includes a porous electrode active material including silicon-based oxide expressed by SiOx (0.5?x?1.2) and having a BET specific surface area ranging from 2 m2/g to 100 m2/g.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a silicon-based anode active material, comprising a silicon phase, a SiOx (0<x<2) phase and a carbon dioxide phase. Also disclosed is a secondary battery, which comprises a cathode comprising a cathode active material, an anode active material comprising an anode active material, and a separator, wherein the anode active material comprises a silicon phase, an SiOx (0<x<2) phase and a silicon dioxide phase.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode active material having a plurality of pores and a secondary battery including the same, and more particularly, a porous electrode active material including silicon-based oxide expressed by SiOx (0.5?x?1.2) and having a Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller (BET) specific surface area ranging from 2 m2/g to 100 m2/g, and a secondary battery including a cathode including a cathode active material, a separator, an anode including an anode active material, and an electrolyte, in which the anode active material includes a porous electrode active material including silicon-based oxide expressed by SiOx (0.5?x?1.2) and having a BET specific surface area ranging from 2 m2/g to 100 m2/g.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode active material having a plurality of pores and a secondary battery including the same, and more particularly, a porous electrode active material including silicon-based oxide expressed by SiOx (0.5?x?1.2) and having a Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller (BET) specific surface area ranging from 2 m2/g to 100 m2/g, and a secondary battery including a cathode including a cathode active material, a separator, an anode including an anode active material, and an electrolyte, in which the anode active material includes a porous electrode active material including silicon-based oxide expressed by SiOx (0.5?x?1.2) and having a BET specific surface area ranging from 2 m2/g to 100 m2/g.

Abstract: Provided is a metal oxide for a cathode active material of a lithium secondary battery capable of having improved structural and thermal stability, high efficiency, high capacity, and excellent cycle property and life span property, the metal oxide represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: LiaNixCoyMzO2??[Chemical Formula 1] (in Chemical Formula 1, M is any one selected from aluminum, magnesium, titanium, gallium and indium, and a, x, y and z satisfy 1.01?a?1.05, 0.7?x?0.9, 0?y?0.17, 0.02?z?0.16, and x+y+z=1, respectively).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a porous silicon-based electrode active material, comprising a silicon phase, a SiOx (0<x<2) phase and a silicon dioxide phase and having a porosity of 7-71%.

Abstract: Provided is a metal oxide for a cathode active material of a lithium secondary battery capable of having improved structural and thermal stability, high efficiency, high capacity, and excellent cycle property and life span property, the metal oxide represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: LiaNixCoyMzO2??[Chemical Formula 1] (in Chemical Formula 1, M is any one selected from aluminum, magnesium, titanium, gallium and indium, and a, x, y and z satisfy 1.01?a?1.05, 0.7?x?0.9, 0?y?0.17, 0.02?z?0.16, and x+y+z=1, respectively).

Abstract: Disclosed are a current collector for a flexible electrode, a method of manufacturing the same, and a negative electrode including the same. The current collector for a flexible electrode includes: a flexible polymer substrate; a cross-linkable polymer layer disposed on the polymer substrate; and a metal layer disposed on the cross-linkable polymer layer, wherein the surface of the cross-linkable polymer layer includes a plurality of protrusions and grooves.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a porous silicon-based electrode active material, comprising a silicon phase, a SiOx (0<x<2) phase and a silicon dioxide phase and having a porosity of 7-71%.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of preparing an oxygen reduction reaction catalyst, an oxygen reduction reaction catalyst prepared thereby, and an electrode for a metal-air battery using the oxygen reduction reaction catalyst, wherein transition metal ions are adsorbed on a commercially available melamine foam and carbonized, and carbon black is supported on a porous structure of the carbonized melamine foam support, thereby economically preparing the oxygen reduction reaction catalyst that is able to maximize an effect of promoting the oxygen reduction reaction.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a silicon-based anode active material, comprising a silicon phase, a SiOx (0<x<2) phase and a carbon dioxide phase. Also disclosed is a secondary battery, which comprises a cathode comprising a cathode active material, an anode active material comprising an anode active material, and a separator, wherein the anode active material comprises a silicon phase, an SiOx (0<x<2) phase and a silicon dioxide phase.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode active material having a plurality of pores and a secondary battery including the same, and more particularly, a porous electrode active material including silicon-based oxide expressed by SiOx (0.5?x?1.2) and having a Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller (BET) specific surface area ranging from 2 m2/g to 100 m2/g, and a secondary battery including a cathode including a cathode active material, a separator, an anode including an anode active material, and an electrolyte, in which the anode active material includes a porous electrode active material including silicon-based oxide expressed by SiOx (0.5?x?1.2) and having a BET specific surface area ranging from 2 m2/g to 100 m2/g.

Abstract: An active material for a battery includes an electrochemically reversibly oxidizable and reducible base material selected from the group consisting of a metal, a lithium-containing alloy, a sulfur-based compound, and a compound that can reversibly form a lithium-containing compound by a reaction with lithium ions and a surface-treatment layer formed on the base material and comprising a compound of the formula MXOk, wherein M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, a group 13 element, a group 14 element, a transition metal, and a rare-earth element, X is an element that is capable of forming a double bond with oxygen, k is a numerical value in the range of 2 to 4.

Abstract: Disclosed are a current collector for a flexible electrode, a method of manufacturing the same, and a negative electrode including the same. The current collector for a flexible electrode includes: a flexible polymer substrate; a cross-linkable polymer layer disposed on the polymer substrate; and a metal layer disposed on the cross-linkable polymer layer, wherein the surface of the cross-linkable polymer layer includes a plurality of protrusions and grooves.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electrode active material, having a composition of SnPx (0.9?x?0.98), an electrode comprising the same, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the electrode. Also disclosed is a method for preparing an electrode active material having a composition of SnPx (0.9?x?0.98), the method comprising the steps of: preparing a mixed solution of a Sn precursor, trioctyl phosphine (TOP) and trioctyl phosphine oxide (TOPO); and heating the solution. The application of the teardrop-shaped single-crystal SnP0-94 particles as an anode active material for lithium secondary batteries can provide an anode having very excellent cycling properties because the active material has a reversible capacity, which is about two times as large as that of a carbon anode, along with a very low irreversible capacity, and it is structurally very stable against Li ion intercalation/deintercalation in a charge/discharge process, indicating little or no change in the volume thereof.

Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing a cathode active material for a lithium battery, and a cathode active material obtained by the method. The method includes forming a precursor of a one-dimensional nanocluster manganese dioxide with a chestnut-type morphology, inserting lithium into the formed precursor and synthesizing a one-dimensional nanocluster cathode active material particle with a chestnut morphology, coating a water-soluble polymer on a surface of the cathode active material particle, adsorbing a metal ion to the surface of the cathode active material particle coated with the water-soluble polymer, and sintering the cathode active material particle to obtain the one-dimensional nanocluster cathode active material with a chestnut morphology.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electrode active material, having a composition of SnPx (0.9?x?0.98), an electrode comprising the same, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the electrode. Also disclosed is a method for preparing an electrode active material having a composition of SnPx (0.9?x?0.98), the method comprising the steps of: preparing a mixed solution of a Sn precursor, trioctyl phosphine (TOP) and trioctyl phosphine oxide (TOPO); and heating the solution. The application of the teardrop-shaped single-crystal SnPO-94 particles as an anode active material for lithium secondary batteries can provide an anode having very excellent cycling properties because the active material has a reversible capacity, which is about two times as large as that of a carbon anode, along with a very low irreversible capacity, and it is structurally very stable against Li ion intercalation/deintercalation in a charge/discharge process, indicating little or no change in the volume thereof.

Abstract: Methods of preparing capped metal nanocrystals are provided. One method includes reacting a metal nanocrystal precursor with a reducing agent in a solution having a platinum catalyst.